Pynchon Tax Anecdote (Re: catholic and conservative?)

davemarc davemarc at panix.com
Sat Apr 10 10:33:18 CDT 2004


From: Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com>

> I'll just remind you of that interview
> with Tom Robbins not all that long ago when Robbins said that Pynchon
> cost him a ton of money when Pynchon urged Robbins not to pay his income
> tax so as not to support the Vietnam War.  Robbins said the IRS
> eventually caught up with him and clobbered him.

This is weird. I thought it was Harlan Ellison saying that about Thomas
Pynchon--and I think I heard the story during the Eighties.

Anyone?

d.






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